Friday, November 02, 2012

Another try at Orchids



White Orchid, 6" x 6" oil on panel, © 2012, Nancy Van Blaricom

Having not forgotten my attempts at painting an orchid a while back I decided to try it once more.

This time I decided on a 6" x 6" format and cropped my original drawing to eliminate all but a couple of the flowers and focus was on the top one.

Most of the comments I received on the last orchid said I had too much middle value  ....  I think I like this one better because I don't have as much middle value, what do you think?

I'm calling my love affair with the orchid over ... for now.



5 comments:

  1. Hi Nancy,
    Thank you for the nice comment on my blog. Just wanted to tell you I adore your orchid painting. There is just something about a beautiful simple design painting in a monochromatic style.. So much to learn by doing this. You pulled it off beautifully.

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  2. It's a very good painting now, and the framing is spot on. Nice work.

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  3. Beautiful Nancy. I went back and looked at your other post on this Orchid and this one here is superb.

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  4. This orchid is lovely, Nancy. It has an elegant quality about it, and the frame is perfect. No, don't give up... keep at it!!!

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  5. Lovely! I too, like this as a closeup in monochrome. As they say, simple is usually better!

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